The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D and Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site on Nineveh, During 1873 and 1874

Assyrian Discoveries: An Account of Explorations and Discoveries on the Site on Nineveh, During 1873 and 1874

The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D

Name: The Life of Alexander Duff, D.D., LL.D
Price: 33.65 GBP
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Author: George Smith
ISBN: 9781108008297

In Two Volumes, with Portraits by Jeens

by George Smith

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496 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
14 x 21.6 x 2.9 cm

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George Smith (1833-1919) spent many years in India as an educator and editor of the Calcutta Review. He was a great supporter of missionary work and became secretary of the foreign mission committee of the Free Church of Scotland in 1870. He also wrote popular books of missionary biography including this two-volume Life of Alexander Duff (1879). Duff (1806-1878) was the first foreign missionary of the Church of Scotland and a leading figure in promoting Christian education in India. Duff pioneered what he called 'downward filter theory' which centred on educating India's upper caste through English in the hope that this elite group would then take responsibility for the evangelisation and modernisation of South Asia. Volume 1 describes Duff's life until 1843, covering his education in Scotland, his arrival in Calcutta and the founding of his school, the General Assembly Institution.